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Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

INOR sALE-4O ACRES IN VERNON, I'M.
Il proved, near new railroad station will
subdivide into nice townsite; a bargain,
II taken at once.
Property on Fourth street, near new Gov
ernment building and on line to new de.
pot.
A bargain on Main street-S2O0 per foot.
Nice cottage, convenient to business,
$500.
House and lot on Regent street, near
Fifth-cheap
Apply to JOHN p. MORAN,
jy9tf LOG N Spring St., Temple Block.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

NOR SALE-41H ACRES ON ALAME DA
Il street, bounded on the east by Santa
re avenue, on which street horse cars are
now running; frontage on Alameda street
and Santa Fe avenue 660 feet each, with a
length of over half a mile between those
streets. viii subdivide into 800 lots, for
which $500 per lot would be very low.
Price, Sl250 per acre; terms easy.
100 feet (corner) on Temple street. on the
bill. $4,000.
ROCHESTER. HUNTINGTON & LAY
TON, 81 West First street. jy9tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

CROWLEY & DIX-REAL ESTATE, EN-
Il ployment and Collecting office. Give us
a trial. Satisfaction guaranteed No. 10
South Spring street. jy9 I'm
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

FIRST-CLASS HORSE FOR
w a two seated surrey. BILLINGS x
MCGOWN, 10 n. Spring st. jy14-tf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

EOR SALE-GRAND AVENUE LOT 68xI4O
l. on the west side of the street, just be-
yond Washington street, at $500; $500 cash
balance six and twelve months. A decided
bargain. SHERMAN q SHORT, 1874 w LIST
St iuQtf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

NTANTED-FIRSr GLASS PLUMBER
w and gasftter. s. M. PERRY, so South
Main st. my1Stf
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

DEsT BARGAINS IN THE CITY-FOUR
ond street. 5000, worth double. Two lots
ON Seventh street, in Garbolino tract, $1,000.
See about these at once. We make spe-
cialty OF property near the new depots.
JOHN J. JONES & CO., real estate brokers,
283 North Main street. jy8 I'm
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

EOR sALE-BY LONG & STEDMAN, 243
l. North Main ST., 2 lots in Urmston, $3.50,
corner $500; LOngstreet, 60x190, $140O;
Park Villa, $500; Judson, $1,000, $4,000;
Ellis tract very choice lots; City Centre lots
%735; Greenwell lots, 1850.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15
BUSINESS CHANCES.

EOR SALE-A WELL ESTABLISHED
Il grocery and provision business in Mott
market. Inquire of KNIGHTS BROS, Mott
Market 1t
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15

NJ II1lT1N u IIT1ItIkIVI It
jy 14tf 239 n. Main st.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-15
WANTED-HEAP.

vtyA AYTEp-rIvE GOOD PENMEN. SUB
w nit specimens. Address Position,
Box 80" this Office ~
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A Constant Reminder.


''Why do you wear that nickel on
your watch-chain?" asked a city hall
attache of a milkman who was after
board of health permit to peddle cow
juice. II wear it as a reminder TO get
even with one of my customers" was
the answer. cover year ago took
that nickel, which was then beautiful
ly gold plated, as a S. gold piece in
payment of bill. AS soon as l de-
tected the fraud / took it back to the
woman who passed it on me, but she
refused to make it good. So | at
tached it to my watch-chain and kept
on supplying her with milk as though
nothing had happened. But now
every day l make her quart one-fourth
water and once a week l credit her
with one-fourth the amount of her
milk bill in book which l keep for
that purpose. When the sum total
standing to her credit is $4. 95 she
shall have pure milk once more,
and not until then. She knows the milk
is watered, but whenever she shows an
inclination to complain handle the
nickel and say that my milk is as pure
as gold. That settles it. "-ButaiO En-
press.
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An Esquimau Dog With a History.

Wolf, the nigh leader of the dog
team that drew the sledges in the ia
nous Greedy Arctic expedition, says the
San Francisco Chronicle, is now a res
ident of Oakland, having spent the
summer there for his health. He may
be seen at the home of John w. Nc
Neil, painter, living at No. 819 Lydia
street, where he is kept at the expense
of Gen. Sherman, his owner. Wolf
has history. He is the only dog ever
enlisted in the United States navy, and
after the close of the expedition Wolf
was given his regular papers of honor
able discharge from the government
employ. Lieut.. Greedy. in whose pos
session Wolf fell, presented him to
Gen. Sherman, who has ever since kept
him. The hot eastern summers have
been very trying on VOLTS cold blood,
and this summer he was sent to Cali
fornia that ne might escape the heat.
He was sent consigned to George H.
King, of San Francisco, who had a
brother-in-law in the expedition. Mr..
King placed him in the care of Mr.. Nc
Neil. Wolf is a large animal, with
long, gray. silky hair, and possesses
superior intelligence.
A reporter who called to see him
yesterday found him the good natured
victim of half dozen children who
rolled about him. He preserved the
gravest demeanor, and was evidently
weighing some very serious matters.
Wolf was born in the north some eight
years ago, and taught to draw sledges
across the frozen sea by his Esquimau
masters. When Lieut.. Greedy was fit
ting out the expedition he chose Wolf
for his superior strength, and the ami
mails wonderful intelligence, that
seemed almost human, won him the
honor and distinction of "nigh" lead
err. The off leader was Tiger" whose
name also often figures among the in
cidents of the expedition. These were
the dogs who led that unfortunate band
of explorers northward, often at the
rate of 165 miles per day.
Wolf is the sole survivor of his team,
Tiger being the last to yield to starva-
tons demands. The story is told,
too, that Wolf, by the laws by which
one man lost his life should have died,
but because he was dog he was per-
mitted to live. After Lieut.. Henry's
death Wolf was caught in the act of
stealing a human arm from the corpse
larder of the starving survivors. He
was only dog, and they let him live.
Wolf will be returned to his eastern
home this winter.
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The Rich Growing Richer.

Near the close of 1885 there died in
New York city citizen of that place,
who left to his children fortune esti-
mated at S1S2, ZOO, 900, besides making
a number of minor requests. 1t will
help US to form an idea OF the magnl-
tude of this sum if we consider that 1t
would have sufficed to give Christ
mas present of $40 to every inhabi-
tant of the city, or at the rate of 500
to every family of five persons, sup
posing the. population at that time to
have been 100000. A political COM
mittee of one hundred, appointed in
the same city in October last, COM
prised eight members whose estimated
wealth reached an aggregate of some
what more than $500, 00c, 900, and at
least two of the most colossal fortunes
were unrepresented in this number.
Estates rising into the tens of millions
are to be found in various other cities,
and. taking the country through, one
might designate twenty-five persons
whose united wealth, according to
current estimates, is not less than two
thirds of billion dollars, or about l
per cent. of the total wealth of the
United States, supposing this to have
increased even so per cent. since the
census of 1880. Were all the property
in the country held il equally large
amounts, the whole would barely
suffice for $500 proprietors; or, sup
posing these to have families averag-
ing four persons each besides them
selves, it would supply population a
trifie larger than that of the little town
of Yonkers.
There are no authentic statistics
showing the distribution of property
among different portions of our people,
but whatever the facts may be as to
the comparative diffusion of such
wealth as is held by the classes outside
the circle of the extremely rich, it will
hardly be disputed that the latter now
hold much larger proportion of the
total wealth of the country than was
held by like percentage of the peo-
pie twenty-five or thirty years ago, for
the proofs that this is the case lie
upon the surface and thrust themselves
upon general observation. Moreover,
| see no reason to believe that the
tendency to increasing accumulation
at the upper end of the possessorv
scale has reached or is approaching its
limit. A great fortune, with ordinarily
careful management, possesses an enor-
nous power of accretion. Even when
invested in good securities, at very
moderate rate of interest, a fortune
that rises into the millions affords
ample means of making yearly adj
ditions to principal. If invested in
real estate in any of our growing cities,
it yields increasing income from decade
to decade as the land advances in
value, putting it in the power of the
owner to lay aside an increasing sur
plus; while, in the hands of a shrewd
Spectator, not overscrupulous in his
dealings, its power of increase may be
still greater. In January, 1880, the
New York Commercial AdUertiser re-
ported the rumored additions during
the preceding year to ten sr twelve OF
'the great fortunes identified with
Wall street" at $4,000, 000.-FOrum.
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uncle Sans Strong BOX.

dropped into the treasury yester.
day and looked at the workmen who
are engaged in constructing the new
vault. The treasury looks like
tomb. 1t has great sombre columns
down each side of it, and the doors of its
Easements are so cut that they look as
though they were dug out of a solid
rock. Everything about it is massive,
and it makes me think more of the
bank of England than any other build
ing | have ever seen. 1t is made in
the shape of hollow square, with
wide tiers of granite walls running
around court in the center. 1t is in
this court that the new vault is being
built. Thick walls of brick and
cement rise within, and the vault will
be above and not below ground. Its
interior will be cut up into cells walled
with iron lattice-work, and the work.
men are now riveting the iron bars
composing it together. These bars
must be very strong, as the weight OF
the silver which is to be put in
the vault is immense. There
was portable furnace blazing away
within the vault to-day, and four men
were carrying red hot rivets and stick
ing them through the holes which had
been drilled in these iron bars. They
were then riveted by the pounding of Q
heavy hammer while a man hela an
iron mallet against them at the back
Each of these lattice-work walls re.
quires $500 rivets, and it will take
more than 100000 of these rivets to
fasten the homework of the vault to-
gether. The vault is to contain $780,
600, 900, which is such an immense
sum that few people can comprehend
it. 1t will give some idea of it to know
that its weight will be $3.50 tons, or
the weight of 80, 800 men of 200 pounds
each. Think of the heaviest man you
know, and it would take $4,000 such
men TO weigh as much as does this
silver. 1t would take 178 freight-cars
to carry it, and it would take train a
mile and quarter long to transport it.
Its weight would be so much that 6
locomotives could hardly haul it, and
if these dollars were laid out so that one
just touched the other they would make
a line 1886 miles long. If they were
put into floor, edge to edge, they
would carpet ten times the area of the
capital, oT more Inln InlrCy acres, and
if they were piled one upon another
they would reach much more than 1900
times as high as the Washington monu.
ment, making solid column of silver
more than III miles high. A million
dollars in silver is no small quantity,
and when you pack 500, 900, 900 into
vault it has to be as strong as stone
and iron can make it. To rob this
vault will be physical impossibility.
To tunnel into it one would have to 90
under the whole treasury building,
and he would have to drill through q.
floor of cement and chilled steel be-
fore he got to the coin. The slightest
noise would be sure to be heard, and
the movement of a single bag would
cause such racket as to bring the
ground down upon him instanter. No
attempt has, l think, ever been made to
rob the United States treasury, and the
safeguards about it are so strong that
none but the craziest of men would
think OF trying it Washington Letter
to Savannah News.
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SoliloquiZing Aloud.

Lord Dudley was the absent-minded
peer. who, meeting Sidney Smith in a
London street, said: "Dine with me
to-day, and 1 will get Sidney Smith to
meet you" His Lordship once went
to church to hear Smith preach. Seat
ing himself near the pulpit, he listened
attentively On the preacher SAYING
something that pleased him, he tapped
with his cane on the floor, and IN an
audible whisper cried out, Hear!
Heart" as if he had been in the House
of Commons.
His habit of talking to himself, his
two voices, a squeak and bass, and
the two names in his title, Earl of
Dudley and Ward" prompted a yit to
say that it seemed like Lord Dudley
conversing with Lord Ward"
A country gentlemen persuaded
Lord Dudley to present him at court.
AT st. James street their carriage was
stopped for half an hour by the line of
carriages driving to the reception.
As his custom was, Lord Dudley be-
gan to soliloquize aloud: Now this
tiresome country squire will be ex-
pecting me to ask him to dinner. Shall
ask, or shall l not? No; think he
would be bore"
founded at first, but recollecting, his
companions infirmity, he, too, began
an audible soliloquy:
NOW, this tiresome old peer will,
of course, be asking me to dine with
him to-day. Shall l 60 or shall not
go? No; l think he would be bore. :"
His Lordship laughed and gave
cordial invitation, which was at once
accepted.
His habit often led him to express
his opinion of the viands at friends
table if the dishes did not please him,
for he was fond of good living.
Lord Wilton, who had one of the
best cooks in London, one day invited
Dord Dudley to dine with him. Sud-
denly Dudley, having tasted dish of
which he did not approve, began
apologizing to the company for the
cooking, as if he had been at his own
table.
The fact is" said he, "that my
head cook was was taken ill, and some
kitchen girl, | suppose, has been en-
ployed to cook the dinner"
Rogers, the poet and banker, had
bald head, wrinkled skin, and sunken
cheeks, which gave him a corpse-like
appearance. When Lord Dudley was
plain Mr.. Ward he and Rogers dined
together at friends house. Rogers
apologized for being late, saying that
his own carriage had broken down and
that he had been obliged to come in
hackney coach.
''ln hearse, / should thinkw whis-
pered Ward to himself, but the COM
pany heard the words.
Rogers. who did not enjoy person.
atty unless he was its author, never
forgave him the laconic soliloouy.
Shortly after he got off this epigram:
.eThey say Ward has no heart. but DENY If -
he has a heart, and sets his speeches by it.
Youths COMPANION
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Filling Holes I'm Woodwork.

A correspondent of a mechanical
paper who has evidently had exper-
fence in cabinet-making shop. rec
ommends sawdust or raspings of hard
and soft wood for filling the cracks
ard worm holes in old furniture. l
learned their value, he says, IN my
younger days from the oriental car
penters. You should sift them through
wire guaze. Put each separately in
box with label and you are always
ready for sudden job. | have
another box for bits of every kind of
wood. For crack, worm-eaten
hole. or deep flaw. prepare the proper
dust, by the admixture of brickdust in
flour (also kept ready, or whiting or
oeher, or any required tint. Then
take well-cooked glue, and on a house
plate stir it in slowly while hot, with
sufficient powder for your work. Dab
the hole or crack with your glue brush,
then with putty knife stir about the
mixture on the plate, taking care you
have the color. When sure on this
point. take some of the cement on the
end of the knife and insert it in the
desired place. Then use as much
pressure as you possibly can with the
blade, and keep smoothing at it
Sprinkle a little of the dry powder on
the spot When thoroughly dry. sand
paper the surface with an old used
piece, so as not to abrade the joint.
You can then varnish the mending.
Where weevil and wood worms have
devoured the furniture, cautiously cut
out the part till sound place is
reached. Poison the wood with a
solution of sulphate Of copper injected
into the hollow. Let it dry. Cut an
angular piece of same wood from your
board, and with sharp chisel make
suitable aperture for its reception.
Fix it with glue When thoroughly
dry. work with carving tools or rasp
and glass, scraping till the new bit of
work exactly matches the old.
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CATARRH CURE.

AN INTEREsTING EXPERIMENTAL
highly interesting as we'll as instructive
experiment in night signaling at sea will
be tried at the first favorable opportun
ity. The new method is one suggested
by Mr.. Edison. 1t consists in throwing
the rays of the electric light on the
clouds. The clouds thus acting as re-
Electors, permit the flashes of the light
being seen at very great distance. The
regular system of flashes of different
lengths can be utilized in this manner by
corresponding them with the dashes and
dots of The regular army and navy code
of telegraphy. This system could be
used to great advantage where the means
usually employed would be inadequate
and unreliable. The present manner of
sending messages at night between diff
ferent vessels consists of the common
torch, which is used in the same manner
as the "wig wag' flag in daytime.
port Cor. New York World.
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Living Under Water.

The length of time during which a
person can live under water, without
the aid of any diving apparatus. is a
question in dispute among scientific
men.
Some travellers have told marvellous
stories of the natives of eastern coun-
tries who were able to stay ten or even
fifteen minutes under water, but there
can be no doubt that these are absurd
exaggerations. 1t is well known that
the ordinary divers for coral, sponge,
and pearl oysters do not remain under
more than two minutes, and the .'men-
fish" who exhibit in the museums do
not exceed two minutes and half.
The doctors differ in their opinion
as to the time at which death comes in
drowning. Some say three minutes,
others in five, but none sets longer
time than this, except the drowning
person faints, when respiration and
animation cease.
A Frenchman named Lacassaone,
has been for some time studying this
subject, and the results of his expert
ments and observations are given in
the Revue Scientifique. The man
upon whom he experimental was
famous Hungarian swimmer named
James, who, among other exploits,
once swan from Calais to Dover, and
had remained under water for four
minutes and fourteen seconds.
Before diving it was observed he
first expelled all the air from his lungs
and then took long breath. After
he had been under water for minute
|, l.. ,l< ,lor.
and feeble. After two minutes and
thirty seven seconds there was
rush of blood to the head, and his eyes
appeared sunken. Still he continued
to breathe amply and regularly at the
rate of twenty respirations minute,
while at the same time the observer
noticed that the abdominal cavity
diminished gradually in size.
NJ. Lacassagne believes from this,
and from the fact that James was con-
tinually swallowing his saliva, that in
drawing the long breath at first he
swallowed a quantity of air, and that
the ordinary respiratory channels
being closed, he takes into his lungs
the air contained in his stomach, which
being breathed out, is returned to his
stomach, and from thence again taken,
somewhat purified, into his lungs.
That is, in other words, he makes of
his stomach reservoir for air, fact
which, if true, will account for his
ability to remain for such an extra
ordinary time under the water.
This process, which the diver per-
forms instinctively and mechanically,
M. Lacassagne believes can and should
be learned by all swimmers, as giving
them far greater endurance under
the surface than they now possess
Youths Companion.
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Trouble in the Interior Department..

AT IL o'clock Sunday evening
Peoria father walked into the parlor
where his two daughters were enter.
tanning a couple of young gentlemen.
HIM" says he. Il have made UP
my mind to follow the example Of the
Secretary of the Interior"
I'm what respect, father?" inquired
one of the daughters.
I'm stern and emphatic demand.
said the old man grimly, ''that sparks
must go"
In two minutes after the department
OF the interior was vacated and one OF
the daughters was murmuring, ''lf a
father can be so cruel wat'll a mar
be?"-Pe0rid transcript.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-12-22

The twenty fifth anniversary of Prince
Bismarck services in the government
of Prussia brought him, among others, a
present of unusual we gh from Lord
haueiagh, who l. greas admirer of the
prince. "An iron present is the mot
suitable gift for the iron chancellor" he
may have thought. And there was de
livered on the festive day, at the palace
of the prince, a parcel of immense
weight. To guess by it's weight, says a
contemporary. it might have been Bis
marck's voice in the Council of the pow
ers, but it was not. When the covers
were removed there stood writing table
of iron fashioned "a if made out of ''real
live cannon balls. Chicago Herald.
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Eighteen years ago, when the air brake

Eighteen years ago, when the air brake
was tried. it required eighteen seconds
to apply it to q train 1000 feet long
Four years later the time was reduced
four seconds. Recent experiments with
the air brake on freight trains show that
it can be applied to every car in train
of that length running at the rate of for
ty miles an hour, and that this train cab
be stopped within 500 feet, or one fourth
of its own length, and all this without
any serious iolting New York Sun.
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Ny SON has been afflicted with nasal
catarrh since quite young. 1 was in
duced to try Ely's Cream Balm, and be-
fore he had used one bottle that dis
agreeable catarrhal smell bad all left him.
He appears as well as anyone. 1t is the
best catarrh remedy in the market j.
g. Olmstead, ArcoIa, Ill. dec %
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Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remarkable
story, the truth of which is vouched for
by the aesidents of the town: 81 am 70
years old, have been troubled with kid
ney complaint and lameness for many
years; could not dress myself without
help. Now I am free frs N all pain and
soreness, and am able to do my own
houseworB. / owe my thanks to Electric
Btters for having renewed my youth,
and removed completely all disease and
pain" Try bottle, SOC and 81 at Henry
Hmrichs Drug Store.
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BUCKLIN'S ARNICA SALVE.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piless, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per
feet satisfaction of money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Fl.
Hinrichs.
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1t is pleasure, writes Mrs. Eliza Anu
Smith, of Vermillion, Erie Go. Ohio, 70
tell the ladies everywhere that nothn4
surpasses DR.. Harter's Iron Tonic for a.
Irregularities. ut cured me when tbs
physicians and oil other remedies failed .